ἥμισυς: Difference between revisions

|txtha=[[ἡμίσεια]], [[ἥμισυ]]; genitive ἡμίσους (Sept. ἡμισεος [[which]] is [[more]] [[common]] in the earlier and [[more]] [[elegant]] Greek writings (from [[Herodotus]] [[down]])); neuter plural [[ἡμίση]], R G, a [[form]] in [[use]] from Theophrastus [[down]], for the earlier ἡμισεα [[adopted]] by Lachmann (cf. Passow ([[also]] Liddell and Scott), [[under]] the [[word]]; Winer's Grammar, § 9,2d.; [[ἡμίσεια]] in T Tr (ἡμίσιά WH) seems [[due]] to a [[corruption]] of the copyists, [[see]] Stephanus Thesaurus iv., p. 170; [[Alexander]] Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr. i., p. 248; Alex. [[Alexander]] Buttmann (1873) in Studien und Kritiken for 1862, p. 194 f; (N. T. Gram. 14 (13); Tdf. Proleg., p. 118; [[but]] [[especially]] WH s Appendix, p. 158)); the Sept. for מַחֲצִית, [[much]] [[more]] [[often]] חֲצִי; [[half]]; it takes the [[gender]] and [[number]] of the annexed [[substantive]] ([[where]] τό [[ἥμισυ]] [[might]] [[have]] been [[expected]]): τά [[ἡμίση]] [[τῶν]] ὑπαρχόντων, ὁ [[ἥμισυς]] [[τοῦ]] βίου, οἱ ἡμίσεις [[τῶν]] ἱππέων, [[see]] Passow, [[under]] the [[word]]; (Liddell and Scott, [[under]] the [[word]], L 2; Kühner, § 405,5c.); τάς ἡμίσεις [[τῶν]] δυνάμεων, τό [[ἥμισυ]], substantively, the [[half]]; [[without]] the [[article]] a [[half]]: [[ἕως]] ἡμίσους τῆς βασιλείας μου ([[ἥμισυ]] καιροῦ, καί [[ἥμισυ]] is added to [[cardinal]] numbers [[even]] [[where]] [[they]] are [[connected]] [[with]] [[masculine]] and [[feminine]] substantives, as [[τρεῖς]] ἡμέρας καί [[ἥμισυ]], [[three]] days and a [[half]], ὀψώνειν δυοιν δραχμων καί ἡμίσους, Ath. 6, p. 274c.; [[δύο]] or [[ἑνός]] πήχεων καί ἡμίσους, Alex.)); [[with]] καί omitted: Tdf. edition 7 (μυριάδων [[ἑπτά]] ἡμίσους, [[Plutarch]], Mark 34).